In 1671 a former Civil War soldier and his gang conned their way into stealing the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It became the first and only time anyone has attempted to steal them.
A 1547 inventory of Henry VIII's property estimated that his jewels ... the annual income of a duke, second in wealth to the king, was about 6,000 British pounds, or $2.5 million in today's ...
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